David Uberti
The Guardian - Thursday 19 June 2014
It is hard to believe there has ever been any life in this place. Shattered glass crunches under Seph Lawless’s
feet as he strides through its dreary corridors. Overhead lights
attached to ripped-out electrical wires hang suspended in the stale air
and fading wallpaper peels off the walls like dead skin.
Lawless sidesteps debris as he passes from plot to plot in this
retail graveyard called Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio. The shopping
centre closed in 2008, and its largest retailers, which had tried to
make it as standalone stores, emptied out by the end of last year.
When Lawless stops to overlook a two-storey opening near the mall’s
once-bustling core, only an occasional drop of water, dribbling through
missing ceiling tiles, breaks the silence.
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